The Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has put a telephone call across to Governor Ademola Adeleke, assuring him that he has mandated the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to vacate a court order freezing an Osun state government account.
Penpushing reports that presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga made this development known in a post on X, however, the announcement of the phone conversation came minutes after the presidency announced the directive on the court order
“President Tinubu in a phone conversation with Governor Ademola Adeleke on Thursday informed him about his directive to the EFCC to lift the court order on the Osun State Government account’, Onanuga wrote.
Penpushing further reports that it would be recalled that Tinubu had earlier in a statement personally signed said the action of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was embarrassing to him.
“I must state that I feel deeply embarrassed not by the EFCC’s exercise of its mandate backed by a court order, but by the timing of the agency’s action. This is so because every action taken by an institution of State, especially at the Federal level, is always credited to me, as the President, even when I may not have had any prior knowledge of the action’, he wrote
“Osun State is only a few days away from its gubernatorial election. Therefore, nothing ought to be done to give an impression that the EFCC or indeed any other agency of the federal government is being used to interfere with the election’, Tinubu added.
“Based on the foregoing premise, I am duty-bound to issue a directive on this issue in consonance with the overriding public interest in preserving public confidence and the integrity, credibility, and fairness of our democratic process’, he said.
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